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Wooden Ships

Tracking international maritime activity between 1750 and 1850. Geography 575 Final Project.

Data Characteristics:

Number of Attributes: 141
Number of Records: 280280
Number of Records with Coordinates: 257983
Number of Ships:  949
Number of Companies:  26
Number of Ship Types:  109
Number of records with wind direction:  270238
Number of records with air temperature:  54265
Number of records with weather code: 95390
Number of records with SST Reading:  120
Number of records with humidity reading:  330
Number of records with cloud fraction reading:  95
Number of records reporting sea state:  59559

header = ['RecID', 'InstAbbr', 'LogbookLanguage', 'VoyageFrom', 'VoyageTo', 'ShipName', 'ShipType', 'Company',
          'OtherShipInformation', 'Nationality', 'Name1', 'Rank1', 'Name2', 'Rank2', 'ZeroMeridian', 'ObsGen',
          'DistUnits', 'DistToLandmarkUnits', 'DistTravelledUnits', 'LongitudeUnits', 'VoyageIni', 'UnitsOfMeasurement',
          'Year', 'Month', 'Day', 'UTC', 'Distance', 'Lat3', 'Lon3', 'Anchored', 'AnchorPlace', 'WindDirection',
          'AllWindDirections', 'WindForce', 'WindForceScale', 'AllWindForces', 'WindScale', 'Weather', 'ShapeClouds',
          'DirClouds', 'Clearness', 'PrecipitationDescriptor', 'CloudFrac', 'Gusts', 'Rain', 'Fog', 'Snow', 'Thunder',
          'Hail', 'SeaIce', 'SSTReading', 'SSTReadingUnits', 'StateSea', 'CurrentDir', 'CurrentSpeed', 'TairReading',
          'AirThermReadingUnits', 'ProbTair', 'BaroReading', 'AirPressureReadingUnits', 'BarometerType', 'BarTempReading',
          'BarTempReadingUnits', 'HumReading', 'HumidityUnits', 'HumidityMethod', 'PumpWater', 'WaterAtThePumpUnits',
          'LifeOnBoard', 'LifeOnBoardMemo', 'Cargo', 'CargoMemo', 'ShipAndRig', 'ShipAndRigMemo', 'Biology', 'BiologyMemo',
          'WarsAndFights', 'WarsAndFightsMemo', 'Illustrations', 'OtherRem']

Project proposal: https://docs.google.com/a/wisc.edu/document/d/1u48D2qRlJtzMEyCbk01vlPqFDWKwQxOPaWUjL3Q8_yo/edit?usp=sharing

Wireframe drafts: https://drive.google.com/a/wisc.edu/folderview?id=0B7V9NVMcn-r_WnM0M2JlVUpOTEU&usp=sharing

Update: Check data folder for API and Database update. (Scott 3/19) Update: Added googledocs link (Scott 3/28)